Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOI haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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